Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women
Auteur :
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520063297
Date de publication :
7 janv. 1988
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
680 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh.